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Citadel - Found Forged ID

Where this side quest begins, and where it ends, are at two completely different times in the game. So, once you begin the side quest, it's going to take a while to actually finish it off later on in the game. Here's the rub. During the main story quest known as Garrus: Eye For An Eye, you'll come to the Citadel to finish up some personal business Garrus left undone. During that quest, you'll come across some items on a counter known as Forged IDs. These can be found before you enter the final hangar, where you'll be assaulted by a plethora of mechs, including YMIR Mechs. Once you retrieve those items, you'll be contracted to finish this side quest, but you can't right now. Well, not yet, at least.

Later on in the game (much later on, if you're following our walkthrough), you'll recruit a second wave of party members. Each of those members (Tali, Samara and Thane) will have their own dedicated, personal quest, just like the first of wave of characters did. Once each and every one of their dedicated quests are completed, you'll be able to finish this side quest once and for all. To do so, you need to head back to the Citadel, where the IDs were found in the first place. As always, the Citadel can be found by using a Mass Relay and jumping to the Widow system (via the Serpent Nebula). Once you arrive at the Citadel, get off of the Normandy and begin to head into and through C-Sec.

With your back facing C-Sec, head leftward, and continue to do so until you reach a staircase to your north that leads downstairs. To the right of the staircase, you should find a pair of Asari sitting on a couch. When you confront them to speak with them, they'll immediately give you an attitude. These anti-human Asari are fed up with the human-dominated council, and the security measures they've enforced have kept these Asari from freely traveling. Since you're such a nice guy, you can offer to help them out. Doing so is rather easy, though there are two different possible outcomes to this side quest, depending on how you want to go about your business.

Renegades can finish this side quest off rather rapidly. When the Asari tells you than she can't travel freely, you can inform her that you've found some forged IDs. Upon handing them over to the Asari, they can now travel unabated, and in return, you'll get Renegade points. If you don't want to hand over the IDs, however, you can tell them that you'll straighten stuff out with C-Sec for them (this is where the side quest will be renamed False Positives). This is, indeed, the Paragon route through the side quest. Return all the way back to where your ship is docked, and speak with the woman behind the counter. You can ultimately convince her, rather easily in fact, that the Asari should be reconsidered for free travel. She'll agree. Now all that's left to do is give the good news to the Asari, who don't even give you a passing thank you before heading on their way.